Published in Guernica, July 7, 2021

“The saltwater aquarium in my new dentist’s office is its best feature…”

Essay published in The Paris Review, June 16, 2020

“When my mother died, her best friend Heidi called and told me, ‘What I’ll miss most is her laugh…'”

Published in The New Yorker on November 7, 2017

Full version of essay anthologized in THIS IS THE PLACE (Seal Press, 2017)

“It is one thing to play dress-up, to imitate pronunciations and understanding; it is another thing to think or dream or live in a language not your own.”

Essay published in BREVITY; Issue 53, Fall 2016

Winner of the Race, Racism, and Racialization student writing contest

“A few days before I turned three years old, my mother and my father packed my younger sister, my cat, and me into a car to drive from Florida to Window Rock, Arizona, to visit my mother’s family on the reservation, and to register me and my sister with the Navajo Nation. The cat jumped out of the car somewhere in Texas…”

Essay published in Silk Road; Issue 10, Winter/Spring 2013